Winter Calendar

All Welcome!

February 16 – March 14th

ENERGY COLLEGE – Charge your knowledge!
Four weeks of Informal workshops, demonstrations, cook ups, talks, presentations on site at Energy Cafe: The Field Station over flow car park, Gunpowder Park, Sewardstone Road, Waltham Abbey, EN9

for more details and to let us know you’re coming please call: 07791246022 /07947367463. email: pilotpublishing@googlemail.com

all workshops are FREE! (contributions welcome!)

wear wellies & warm clothes!

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Confirmed:

March 10th
Wind Turbine & Solar Hot Water: Collective Experiment!
Would you like to build a wind turbine? Or make a solar hot water heater?

We will begin designing and building a vertical axis wind turbine and a solar water heater with David Herbert. The ad hoc designs will depend on the materials we can gather…check the list and please bring something with you!

March 14th
Critical Mass Food search within a six mile radius on Bikes.
11am – Meet at Energy Café.

Maps provided – the aim is to source as much locally grown food as possible (including wild food) gather back at site with findings to cook up a sunset dinner.

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February 22nd – March 14th
Details and schedule to be confirmed (week by week)
Energy College Wish list includes:

>Beat the fuel crisis, come and make your own free electricity: from bike power, to wind, to solar experimentation.
>Design, build and test ovens and stoves for winter cooking,
>Take part in demonstrations on DIY hot water systems and central heating.
>Explore Rainwater harvesting
>Potential of willow, from coppicing, to fedging and building living structures, weaving and basketry + charcoal making and Bio char.
>Inventing shelters, finding natural ways to insulate (felting etc)
>Preparing for a café event: café furniture, outdoor stage building, skate ramp, dance floor and learning how to build a compost loo!
>Making a mobile allotment, seed saving, composting etc
>Outreach – Energy café crew offering services to local community
>Talks and presentations on food production, complimentary currency, land remediation processes, collective living, common land and future of Gunpowder Park etc…
>Plus all sorts of energizers (dawn chorus walk, jamming, Djing, foraging) and lots of cook ups! And we’re also keen to build a hot air balloon and dig a wishing well!!

Does any of the above spark your imagination? would you like to run a workshop, give a demonstration, test something out, experiment? We’re looking for proposals, please contact us to discuss your ideas….We look forward to hearing from you or meeting you on site! Email: pilotpublishing@googlemail.com / Mobiles: 07791246022 or 07947367463

March 21st (Spring Equinox- 24hour non stop)
Energy Cafe off grid Spring Banquet

Energy Cafe’s biggest ever local food Banquet, Magnificent Revolution bike powered cinema, acoustic music and lots more!